Great Places to Eat in Brooklyn

This Carroll Gardens restaurant from the team behind Frankies Spuntino is an homage to the German restaurants that once dominated the New York City food scene. On the menu: pickle-brined chicken, tangy-sweet beef brisket braised in red wine, and warm chewy-crispy pretzels (which the two Franks learned to make from Castronovo's father-in-law, a retired baker from Freiburg).